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Karur stampede: Actor Vijay's TVK party moves SC
TAMILAGA Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court's order constituting a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the stampede during the party's rally in Karur which claimed 41 lives and left over 60 injured.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Coldrif cough syrup under lens in city
Sale, distribution & storage of syrup linked to children's deaths in Madhya Pradesh may be banned
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Zubeen's police officer cousin held over death, suspended
SANDIPAN Garg, an Assam Police Service officer and cousin of Zubeen Garg, arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Assam Police in connection with the music icon’s death on Wednesday.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
How youth leagues have laid the platform for TN kabaddi players
LOCAL leagues helping cricketers make a step up to big leagues was one of the trends in recent times.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
PUNISH THE GUILTY IN LETHAL DRUG CASE, FIX THE SYSTEM
NEARLY four decades after 14 patients in Mumbai died of kidney failure from cough syrup tainted with diethylene glycol (DEG), the same poison has struck again.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
BJP mulls permanent national commission for denotified tribes
THE BJP is in favour of the proposal seeking establishment of a nationallevel permanent Commission for the welfare of thousands of denotified, nomadic and seminomadic tribes, and a decision is likely to be taken after leaders of the BJP's OBC Morcha meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
B’desh armed with fresh belief and power
FOR a while, on a tense Tuesday night at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati, Nigar Sultana's Bangladesh had England on the ropes.
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October 09, 2025
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De Minaur beats Borges to enter quarters in Shanghai
AUSTRALIA'S Alex de Minaur cruised through to the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals on Wednesday, ousting Portugal’s Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Woman attacks husband with hot oil, chilli powder
A woman has been charged with scalding her husband by pouring hot oil over him and sprinkling chili powder while he was peacefully asleep in their rented accommodation in south Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Congress may get 57 seats, to spare two for new ally
Bihar polls: Party to field 17 out of 19 MLAs, finalises 25 names, Last House met for 146 days, lowest since Independence
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
India will roll out satcom network in fastest time: Scindia
INDIA will roll out the satellite communication network in the fastest time in the country, said Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
TN regulator slaps notice on Sresan
THE Centre has pointed fingers at the Tamil Nadu Food and Drug Administration (TNFDA) for not yet cancelling the licence of Sresan Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Coldrif cough syrup, linked to the deaths of at least 20 children in Madhya Pradesh.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Army builds homestays to boost border security
IN a strategic move blending national security with local economic revival, the Indian Army has inaugurated tent-based homestays in the remote border village of Garbyang in Uttarakhand.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
India-Taliban ties signal pragmatic reset as FM Muttaqi arrives for talks
AFGHANISTAN'S Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's visit to India from October 9 marks a carefully calibrated shift in New Delhi's approach to the Taliban regime in Kabul.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
'His spirit undaunted': Wife meets Wangchuk at jail, gets detention order
GEETANJALI Angmo, wife of Ladakh climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, met him in Jodhpur Central Jail on Tuesday, for the first time since his detention 11 days ago. She also received a copy of his detention order, according to her social media post.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Putin in Tajikistan to meet leaders of ex-Soviet leaders
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin began a state visit Wednesday in Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the Soviet Union.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Pay ₹60 cr before going abroad: HC to Shilpa Shetty
THE Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused actor Shilpa Shetty permission to travel to Colombo for a YouTube event, saying she must first pay ₹60 crore in fraud charges in an alleged cheating case.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Zubeen’s police officer cousin held over death, suspended
SANDIPAN Garg, an Assam Police Service officer and cousin of Zubeen Garg, arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Assam Police in connection with the music icon’s death on Wednesday.
2 min |
October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
World Jr C’ships: India vs Korea in quarters
YOUNG shuttlers from India put up yet another clinical performance in last Group Stage tie against UAE to enter the quarterfinals of the ongoing BWF World Junior Championships at the National Centre of Excellence in Guwahati on Wednesday.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
11 Pak soldiers killed; Imran's party sacks CM
AT LEAST 11 military personnel, including a Lt Colonel and a Major, were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan, the army said on Wednesday.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
Two elite para commandos missing in Anantnag forests, search ops on
TWO para commandos of the Army have gone missing since Tuesday in the dense Gadool forest area of Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir during an anti-terror operation.
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October 09, 2025
The Morning Standard
THE DRYING UP OF DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION
For democracy to survive when citizenship is tenuous, we must create knowledge panchayats. In such spaces, diverse voices can inform policy in everyday language
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Quantum pioneers win Nobel for tech behind our phones
JOHN Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the weird world of subatomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing.
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
At least 15 killed after landslide hits private bus in Himachal, 3 rescued
AT least 15 people were killed while two others were rescued as a private bus they were travelling in was struck by a massive landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district on Tuesday evening, officials said.
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Haryana IGP shoots self with service weapon, probe launched
THE Inspector General of Police (IGP), Haryana, Y. Puran Kumar, allegedly took his life with his service revolver at his private residence in Sector 11 on Monday.
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Draupadi’s inner battles
Theatre group Pratibimb’s recent production, ‘God’s Lioness’, spotlights complex relationships between the individual, society, and the divine through Draupadi’s experience beyond Kurukshetra
2 min |
October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
New Overseas Mobility Bill coming
Seeks to build a modern framework for safe, legal and orderly overseas employment for Indians
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
India blasts Pak's 'delusional tirade' on Kashmir at UNSC
IN a heated exchange at the United Nations Security Council on the subject of “Women, Peace and Security,” India launched a fierce counterattack against Pakistan’s attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, accusing Islamabad of hiding behind what it called “misdirection and hyperbole.”
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
NDA, Oppn bloc intensify talks for seats deals amid push from allies
BJP, JD(U) likely to contest equal number of constituencies; Chirag party offered 25, Cong to hold CEC meet today to finalise first list
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October 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
ACB to probe Barapulla extension project delay
DELHI LG VK Saxena has ordered an Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) probe into the more than a decade delay in the construction of the Barapulla flyover.
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